Radhika Apte in 'Phobia' - a thriller and a game changer

Bollywood actress Radhika Apte (30) usually selects her films based on characters and not genres and, in her opinion, her forthcoming movie 'Phobia', a thriller, will be a 'game-changer' as far as horror content in India is concerned in India. 'Phobia' is a psychological thriller directed by Pawan Kripalani and will feature Radhika Apte as an artist who fights a phobia of stepping outside her house.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 26 May 2016.

In Radhika's words - this movie is unlike the so-called image of thriller and horror films that is there in India and it has the potential to break that stereotypical image of Indian horror.
Radhika has a decade-old career in the Indian entertainment industry and has balanced her work between commercial and off-beat cinema. She has previously appeared in films like 'Badlapur', 'Manjhi – The Mountain Man' and 'Ahalya' (short film). She has never signed a film by looking at its genre but has always been concerned about the character that was being offered to her.
In 'Phobia', she essays the role of Mehek, who is an artist and lives alone. Mehek is a very open-minded person and, one day, an incident takes place in her life after which a phobia develops in her mind and her personality changes. The film is about her struggle with her phobia.


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‘Manjhi’ – the story of a man who conquered a mountain

‘Manjhi The Mountain Man’ movie is based on the true story of Dashrath Manjhi, also known as the ‘The Mountain Man’. He had, single-handedly, carved a path through a 360-foot-long, 30-foot-wide and 25-foot-high hillock using only a hammer and chisel.
It took him 22 years to complete the task and shorten the travel time between Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya town from 55 kilometers to 15 kilometers and he did it because he did not want anyone to die as his wife did, while fetching water.
This has been reported in financialexpress.com dated 21 August 2015.

He was a poor laborer in Gehlaur village, near Gaya in Bihar and was born in 1934 and died in 2007.
The story revolves around the remote village of Gehlaur which is cut off from the rest of the world by a mountain range. It is the love story of Manjhi, which is essayed by actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Phalguniya, a role played by actress Radhika Apte.
It seems one day a pregnant Phalguniya was carrying food for Manjhi on a mountain when she slipped and fell to her death – the yet-to-be-born child survived. That is when he decided to carve a path through the mountain so that nobody else faces the same tragedy he did.
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